Bound by Blood: You are not like us, (Paperback)

<p>Nico Vitale has spent thirty years reading people.</p><p>It's how he survived. How he climbed to the top of one of New York's most powerful Mafia families. In a world built on lies, betrayal, and blood, Nico possesses a gift that borders on dangerous: he can read anyone.</p><p>A glance.</p><p>A hesitation.</p><p>A heartbeat too fast.</p><p>Nothing escapes him.</p><p>Until Sofia Reyes.</p><p>From the moment she walks into a Vitale family dinner on Elena's arm, Nico knows something is wrong. Sofia is warm, charming, effortlessly confident, and impossible not to like.</p><p>And every instinct he has tells him she's hiding something.</p><p>The problem?</p><p>For the first time in his life, Nico can't figure out what.</p><p>The more he watches her, the more obsessed he becomes. Every smile feels calculated. Every answer carefully chosen. Every glimpse behind her walls only reveals another mystery waiting beneath.</p><p>Sofia has spent years protecting a secret that could change everything.</p><p>A secret buried so deeply that no one has ever come close to uncovering it.</p><p>Not her enemies.</p><p>Not her friends.</p><p>And certainly not Nico Vitale.</p><p>But Nico has never walked away from a puzzle he couldn't solve.</p><p>Especially when the puzzle keeps invading his thoughts.</p><p>What begins as curiosity quickly becomes something far more dangerous. A battle of wills. A game of control. A relentless push and pull between a man determined to uncover every one of her secrets and a woman determined to keep them hidden at any cost.</p><p>The closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where suspicion ends and desire begins.</p><p>Because Sofia isn't just hiding from Nico.</p><p>She's hiding from the part of herself that wants to stop running.</p><p>And Nico Vitale has never accepted defeat.</p><p>Not in business.</p><p>Not in war.</p><p>And certainly not when it comes to a woman he can't stop wanting.</p><p>A dark Mafia romance filled with obsession, tension, dangerous secrets, possessive devotion, emotional surrender, and a battle of wills where losing might be the only way to win.</p>

• Bound by Blood: You are not like us, (Paperback)
• Author: Briel Sals
• ISBN: 9798181653313
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-15
• Page Count: 234